The Art of the State

Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management

Christopher Hood

The Art of the State

Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management

Christopher Hood

Description

This important new study, by a leading scholar in the field, offers a fresh perspective on public management. In contrast to the widespread claim of the `modernization gurus' that a new era of global convergence is dawning in public management, it uses cultural theory to show why ideas about how to manage government are inherently plural and contradictory, and likely to remain so.

The Art of the State

Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management

Christopher Hood

Table of Contents

Part I. INTRODUCTORY 1. Public Management: Seven Propostions2. Calamity, Conspiracy, and Chaos in Public Management3. Control and Regulation in Public ManagementPart II. CLASSIC AND RECURRING IDEAS IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT 4. Doing Public Management the Hierarchist Way5. Doing Public Management the Individualist Way6. Doing Public Management the Egalitarian Way7. Doing Public Management the Fatalist Way?Part III. RHETORIC, MODERNITY, AND SCIENCE IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT 8. Public Management, Rhetoric, and Culture9. Contemporary Public Management: A New Global Paradigm?10. Taking Stock: The State of the Art of the State